in the dirt since history began

Asymmetrical Class Warfare

LENIN WRITES in the UK, but with the US unemployment rate at 9.7%, safe to say this holds true here also?

… There is a staggering amount of spare capacity in the economy. Existing productive resources lie unused, while social needs are unmet, because there is no profitable means by which such resources might be used. Companies are not investing, and are not hiring. The banks are still not lending, preferring to hoard funds against future shocks, because their managers do not believe there are sufficient profitable investment opportunities in the economy. This situation is actually absurd. We have, collectively, all the means we require to house, feed, educate and employ the population, but we may not dispose of those means because there is no profit in doing so. [LENIN’S TOMB]

But there’s good news out there in the economy, too. Productivity is up. It seems our “spare capacity” is on the rise. The question that occurs to me again and again, especially over long Labor Day weekends is this: Why doesn’t my productivity belong to me?See here. What gives? I’m onto you, Capitalists! You owe us. What’s it gonna be? Time? Money? Health care?

Who’s accusing who of class warfare now, you fucks?

* Might Al Schumann have a solution for the problem Lenin describes? Yes.

"We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of shell and shrapnel and in whine of machine-guns will our answer be couched. We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power."